Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics

Stocks Set Another Valuation Record

Believe It Or Not… There Actually Is Some Downside Risk BALTIMORE – Not much action in the stock market last week. A few little steps ahead to over the 18,000 line for the Dow. Then a few little steps back. Currently  the index sits at 17,732.   Th...

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Brexit Paranoia Creeps Into the Markets

European Stocks Look Really Bad… Late last week stock markets around the world weakened and it seemed as though recent “Brexit” polls showing that the “leave” campaign has obtained a slight lead provided the trigger. The idea was supported by a not...

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Is It Our Duty to Fight When the Deep State Asks?

  Hero or Traitor?   And it’s one, two, three, What are we fighting for? Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn, Next stop is Vietnam; And it’s five, six, seven, Open up the pearly gates, Well there ain’t no time to wonder why, Whoopee! We’re all gonna di...

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What Congress Really Thinks of Voters

  Battle of Wits  BALTIMORE – On Wednesday, the Dow rose over 18,000, for the first time since April. Hillary is riding high, too. She is a pro. She has the entire Deep State behind her – including almost every crony and zombie in the country – and a...

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Dirk Müller vom 13.06.2016 – EU-Kommission: CETA braucht keine Zustimmung der nationalen Parlamente

Weitere Themen: • Brexit-Diskussion steckt Börsen an • Französischer Notenbankchef als (unfreiwilliger) Komiker • Elektromobilität: Daimler und Tesla – Anspruch und Wirklichkeit www.cashkurs.com – Ihre unabhängige Finanzinformationsplattform zu den Themen Börse, Wirtschaft, Finanzmarkt von und mit Dirk Müller

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Ekonomisk frihet och välstånd | #084 Radio Mises

Ludwig von Mises-Institutet i Sverige: http://www.mises.se RM gör några slumpmässiga dyk i nyhetssörjan och övergår sedan till att tala om tiden då mänskligheten övervann svälten och skapade ett aldrig tidigare skådat materiellt välstånd. Och teorier om hur detta gick till. FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mises.se TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LvMISverige REDDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/Frihet ITUNES:...

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Rothbard från vänster till höger | #083 Radio Mises

Ludwig von Mises-Institutet i Sverige: http://www.mises.se Murray Rothbard, även känd som Mr Libertarian, sökte samarbete över hela det politiska spektrat för att hitta kanaler för sina frihetliga idéer. Han började hos antikrigsvänstern men kom med tiden att glida mot gammelhöger. Dessutom sedvanligt bottenfiske i modernitetens nyhetsträsk. FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mises.se TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LvMISverige REDDIT:...

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A Darwin Award for Capital Allocation

  Beyond Human Capacity Distilling down and projecting out the economy’s limitless spectrum of interrelationships is near impossible to do with any regular accuracy.  The inputs are too vast.  The relationships are too erratic.   The economy – comple...

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Coming Currency Wars Will Make 1930s Look Like Picnic: John Mauldin

Get close to 20 hours of audio sessions and video highlights from Strategic Investment Conference 2016 brimming with insights and advice for investors. Listen to over 30 leading experts… and discover how to thrive in a Decade of Disruption and a market buffeted by recession, a meek Federal Reserve, startling new technologies, and worldwide geopolitical …

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Wealth Management Products: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Wealh Management Products issuance equaled $1.1 trillion in 2015, a nearly 75% jump on the prior year and equaling 40% of the total growth in credit. Almost one-third of the WMP were bought by credit institutions for inclusion in other WMP – WMP Squared!

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The Trump Risk: Will President Trump Trigger a Recession?

“The economic consequences of a Trump win would be severe,” claims Mr. Summers in the headline. But he has no way of knowing what the consequences would be, let alone if they would be severe. Would they be worse than if Ms. Clinton were elected? No one knows.

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Besparingar och statliga icke-investeringar | #081 Radio Mises

Ludwig von Mises-Institutet i Sverige: http://www.mises.se Studion återvänder till frågan om sparandet, hur det fungerar, och huruvida det överhuvudtaget finns något som kan kallas statlig ”investering”. Därtill lite reflektioner kring statsskuld, statligt riskkapital samt löst grävande i lite migrationsstatistik. FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mises.se TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LvMISverige REDDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/Frihet ITUNES:...

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Free Speech Under Attack

  Offending People Left and Right Bill Bonner, whose Diaries we republish here, is well-known for being an equal opportunity offender  – meaning that political affiliation, gender, age, or any other defining characteristics won’t save worthy targets ...

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Janet Yellen – Backtracking Again

  Muhammad Ali Could Take a Punch BALTIMORE – You had to admit. Muhammad Ali could take a punch. Unlike Donald Trump, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, he was a real war hero. He stood up and faced his enemies on the draft board, rather ...

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Dirk Müller im Tagesausblick vom 08.06.2016 – Milliarden-Zocker erhält Entschädigung

Aus der Kategorie “Verrückte Welt”: Milliarden-Zocker Jerome Kerviel erhält eine Entschädigung von der Société Général – ein Fall, der den Ausdruck “Too Big to Fail” treffend zusammenfasst. Weitere Themen des heutigen Tagesausblicks: – Weltbank: Schwächeres Wachstum und höheres Potential für neue Finanzkrise – Können Notenbanken Schuldenrückzahlung bis in alle Ewigkeit verschieben? – USA:...

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The Real Reason We Have a Welfare State

  From Subject to Citizen BALTIMORE – June 5th, the Swiss cast their votes and registered their opinions: “No,” they said. We left off yesterday wondering why something for nothing never works. Not as monetary policy. Not as welfare or foreign aid. N...

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Dirk Müller im Tagesausblick vom 06.06.2016 – Treffen der Bilderberger in Dresden

Weitere Themen des Tagesausblicks: – Miese US-Wirtschaftsdaten: Auch der Mainstream bemüht den Begriff “Rezession” – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen: Schweizer Souverän belebt Diskussion – DAX an 200-Tage-Linie – EU-Einlagensicherung verliert an Rückhalt – Datenpanne bei der Deutschen Bank: So hilfreich kann Bargeld sein www.cashkurs.com – Ihre unabhängige Finanzinformationsplattform zu den Themen Börse,...

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Moving Closer to BREXIT

  Polls Show Growing Support for a Break with the EU In the UK as elsewhere, the political elites may have underestimated the strength of the trend change in social mood across Europe. The most recent “You-Gov” and ICM pools show a widening lead in f...

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Free Money Leaves Everyone Poorer

  Destroying Lives BALTIMORE – A dear reader reminded us of the comment, supposedly made by Groucho Marx: “A free lunch? You can’t afford a free lunch.”   Groucho dispensing valuable advice Photo via imdb.com   He was responding to last week’s Diary ...

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Is it Time to Buy Real Estate? Yes and No

  Is it Time to Buy Income-Producing Real Estate?  No, No, No. Much to the dismay of my real estate buddies, who are complaining about how high prices while watching the cash flow of their portfolios bursting at the seams from a few good years of ren...

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